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Founder;
When the chronic trolls finally tire can tuscl ever reclaim a shadow of its former self?

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elmer

Will there be enough members for this site to survive? It seems in the last year many of the long time and (God help me for saying this but) respected members vanished.

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skibum609

^such as?

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RonJax2

The trolls will dominate if you don't cull the trolling.

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IRman

Great question and post topic Elmer ! It would be nice to browse these discussions without all the posts by those with the mind of a 12-14year old poorly parented boy!

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minnow

The article spam (not in English, plugs escorts in foreign city, web sales systems ad nauseum clogs up the que so that members who do submit legitimate articles are delayed for approval, or worse yet get accidentally rejected in the maze.

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PAWG_Patrol

The trolls just make me avoid discussions and focus on what actually matters: reviews.

Most trolls here have one thing in common: they don’t write reviews or adjudicate. Just run their mouths like being the village idiot was their full time job.

I know we’re all pathetic losers here, but if you’re so pathetic you hang out on a STRIP CLUB REVIEW site and don’t write any reviews… you shouldn’t even have the privilege of posting on a discussion board anyway.

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gammanu95

I strongly second what PAWG_Patrol wrote. By limiting participation discussion to VIP members, or at least post creation, this site will become so much more usable. There will be no more weeding through junk articles, discussions, and reviews.

Tuscl needs to cull the herd. Keep the bozos, incels, and cheapskate as second class citizens. Pay to play (or at least get a review through the approval process).

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RetiredFromHere

@elmer Well done sir. Well done.

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Icey

We dont need censorship. There was the option of a vip only forum. No one posted. The idiots chose to troll with right wing extremism and harass people in the main room.

Just mute the trolls. Many are vip members

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founder

I got some free time coming up. What changes can I make to improve the discussions here?

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skibum609

^Ignore all the whining, accept my thanks for a great website and enjoy life.

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Icey

2 way blocking

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skibum609

^wah said the fag.

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gSteph

Limit starting discussions to - oh, I don't know, say 7 a month.

Nobody got more (useful) stuff to say/ask than that.

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gSteph

^^ Maybe like 3 if they haven't done a review lately.

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RonJax2

@founder, my suggestions would be:

  1. Implement full two way block. When I have a user blocked, they should not see my posts comments or reviews. They should not be able to adjudicate my reviews. They should not be able to @mention me or comment on my content.

  2. Implement and ENFORCE some baseline rules for conduct on the site. This could be a really low bar. On r/stripclubs, the simple rule "Don't be an Ass" seems to be sufficient. There should be certain things things that get you banned: Doxxing another user or a dancer, threatening the life of a user or dancer, repeated harassment of a user, explicitly racist content. These are things that would get you banned on just about any other platform. Bans don't even need to be permanent. Just giving someone who is behaving badly a 2-3 day timeout with the implied threat of a permaban if the behavior does not change does wonders to change overall behavior.

  3. Consider adding a moderator or three to help. Obviously this is a tough ask for just one person.

  4. Give users the ability to block Political Discussion. Right now, if I want to check in on discussions here I'm forced to wade through the obnoxious politics. It would be nice to opt out of that so I don't get sucked in. I'd even ask - is that board adding value to the user experience? Most other mongering boards outright ban political discussion that is not relevant to the hobby.

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shadowcat

An easy way to clean up the muted list. I've got people on there from 21 years ago. I'm pretty sure they are not around anymore.

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Icey

Censorship or someone who will just abuse being a moderator isnt the answer . 2 way blocking would clean the site up a lot. Getting rid of chunkychicano rickymacrodongs alt accounts would help a lot. Some melatonin for 25.

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@founder

  1. Replace Political Discussion with a Smash or Pass forum.

  2. Make front room VIP only. So if you wanted to act like a moron, you’d either have to pay for the privilege to do so or be an active reviewer. Regular users could still post club discussions to answer actual SC questions.

  3. @gSteph’s idea of a monthly discussion limit would prevent trolls from flooding the front room with absolute idiocy on a daily basis.

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gammanu95
  1. eliminate the politics forum and it will be in the front room
  2. @ronjax2 : click "discussions" -> click "forums" -> select either TJ mongers or Front Room. This solution has been around since before the last update.
  3. Eliminate the club specific discussions from the landing page. Move them to the club page. It looks like usasexguide with all the incels asking if Angel puts out in VIP
  4. Agree with a limit on the number of discussions one user can begin in a month.
  5. Only VIPs can start a discussion
  6. No moderators. There is literally no one on this site who is non-partisan and even tempered. The only instance in which I would want a moderator to exercise any oversight is when 25, pudy tat, skibum, or icey gets into one of their endless idiotic tit-for-tat, gotcha last thread derailments. Fuck, maybe even lock a thread after 100 comments.
  7. lock necro-threads
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gammanu95

and remove pics from the discussion threads. They can insert a link to their user profile when they want to meme.

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jaybud999

Must. Not. Agree. With. Puddy.

But I do on this.

I actually "enjoy" clicking into the bullshit people anonymously post ( yeah, I contribute to it to).....I get a little view of how someone who doesn't see it the same way as me thinks.

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twentyfive

Pay attention to what’s going on.

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Dolfan

I'd like to see the timestamp and author on the most recent post in the discussion list.

To shadows point, adding a last seen date and a quick unmute button would make that page a lot more useful.

I don't care about two way block, I have some people on mute but I mostly just use scroll to ignore. Though I do fuck up and engage with the trolls now and again.

I'd also prefer the default discussion view to the front room, with adding the Political, TJ, and club specific threads an extra click away. Bonus points if it was user configurable or remembered the setting for the logged in user.

I'm not pro-moderator, my limited viewing experience suggests Subra's doing a good job but there's no one here I'd trust to be the moderator.

I'd support limits to new threads, limits on number of total number of posts, non-VIP being read only, or any similar solutions.

Maybe adjudication of new threads might be an option? Do it just like reviews, show the content but not the poster. Maybe reduce the votes required to 3 of 5 instead of 4 of 7? Maybe put a time limit to auto-approve anything that doesn't get enough votes after a few hours.

Or put thumbs up/down on the thread itself, and anyone with more thumbs down than up on their threads over the past 7 days can't start any new ones. That feels ripe for pettiness, but maybe you could also limit the # of thumbs down a user can give to mitigate?

Or thumbs on threads and set the default view to hide anything with a net of -2 thumbs or something. Maybe a user-defined threshold.

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Icey

Leaving things the way they are is better than all of these stupid ideas to censor the forums.

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blahblahblahs

gSteph's idea is great.

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ClubFan81077

Even without any “official” changes, some behaviors would be greatly reduced if people stopped encouraging more of those behaviors. Some people are going to keep posting certain things as long as they can get a response out of others. On another forum, I once watched a guy continually troll and annoy seemingly everyone else there. As for me, though, I just truly ignored him. He wanted to irritate me also, but I wasn’t having any of it, so he eventually gave up. It’s hard for someone to get into your head if you just won’t let them…

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Just mute
25
Motorhead
Mr orange
Chunkychicano rickymacrodong baristafan mrmonger cacaplop and his other fake profiles
And tuscl is cleaned up

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misterorange

Death penalty for trolls. Only have to shoot 1 or 2 of them before the others quit their bullshit.

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elmer

^ you might be on to something
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.The point of my post wasn't just start a shitstorm on every aspect of tuscl. I enjoy this site and I've been a paid member for 7 years.

I wasn't referring to the political section although it's hilarious the obsession some have thinking they can convert others to their way of thinking

Wasn't referring to the fights between certain members although quite pointless no minds were ever changed arguing on the internet

My post was in reference to the large amount of daily & pointless clickbait in the forums section and the seemingly disappearance of many of the long time regulars who actually added value to this site, be it serious or humorous.

Where are they and will they return? Is it connected to the deluge shock posts I don't know.

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skibum609

^Again, you keep mentioning people who have disappeared, and yet have named none. This seems contradictory to your original post. Who is missing because of the bullshit? I say not one person of value. My suggestion is that people either use ignore or just stop whining. Who the fuck is making you read anything you dislike? Mommy?

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gammanu95

Some well-regarded users have faded away or otherwise moved on, like papi and js69. Some have sadly passed away, like juice.

There is also a general thinning of the boomers and Gen X on this site as millenials users have plateaued and zoomers and the next generation increase in usage.

Anthropologists suggest that millennials and zoomers have less discretionary cash for high cost entertainment like strip clubs, less interest in going out for entertainment (v streaming and gaming), and less interest in mixing g with members of the opposite sex. Strip clubs are losing their appeal and tuscl is based around the hobby of spending too much time and money around strip clubs. Founder's challenge -and ours- is maintaining this site's appeal, traffic, and profitably in the evolving cultural prevalence of traditional strip clubs.

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Icey

Those people didnt leave because of trolling. They just moved on in life.

And young guys go to strip clubs.
A lot of the guys on here are the anomaly. They turned this site into being about cheap hookers working in strip clubs. And theyre shocked that this isnt the norm

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twentyfive

^^&^ the two most prolific trolls just keep on posting and displaying such a ridiculous lack of self awareness.

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twentyfive

@elmer
You didn’t start the shitstorm, the two most prolific trolls, both icee & gammy are hell bent on weaponizing anything they can to assuage their fragile feelings and take out their pettiness on anything that has value, maybe because they’re very aware that they have no value.

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mogul1985

@founder If possible, would be on Dashboard->Favorites to list Most recent activity first.

In Bookmarks, you have to click on each one to UnBookmark. If the Bookmark was visible on the Bookmark page, I could then just click, click, click what I want to UnBookmark.

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Icey

All we need is a2 way block. Not censorship or features that make stalking easier

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gammanu95

25 is a truly awful person. Fighting back against his bullying and bullshit can bring out the worst in others. We shouldn't allow him to drag us down to his level. We are better than him; he is simply not worth it.

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busta_nut

how about a points type system. If you accrue x number of total blocks by others you earn a progressive ban from several days to life.. ??

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jaybud999

MUST. NOT. AGREE. WITH. PUDDY. TWICE.....

But I did again.

"Offended by others' politics? Grow the fuck up or stay on DailyKos, Breitbart, or wherever you can circle jerk.
Compulsively drawn into political discussions? Touch grass. No one's forcing you to respond, let alone to act like a little bitch.
Getting called a mean name? Fire right back or ignore it. Better yet, ask yourself why you're so triggered by it.

For a bunch of horny ass men, some of you can be some real little bitches."

That just about sums it up.

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RetiredFromHere

This is classic! Well done Elmer! Well Done!

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twentyfive

@founder

I got some free time coming up. What changes can I make to improve the discussions here?<<

A wow button would be a win, and the ambiguity might give us some cover.
BTW A Big Thank You for this site !

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Hank Moody

I have what I call the Rule of Six - anytime you have a group of 6 or more people, it’s impossible to get them to agree on anything. Dealing with trolls is a prime example. We can’t even agree on who the trolls are, let alone whether to ignore them or combat them or somewhere in between.

We can’t ignore the trolls but somehow we ignored founder’s VIP forum back in the day. Seriously lol. There’s no fixing this bunch of idiots (myself included). All we can hope for with the latest version of trolls is that they suffer the same fate as SJG and that their local library cuts off their wifi or their Huffy gets a flat. Without that, the board and we are their toys.

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RetiredFromHere

@founder
You are doing a great job.

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chunkychicano

Putting limits on number of threads someone can make per day or month can make sense.

Most guys arent posting threads. Most are engaging in comments.

You can already somewhat filter the threads by the date posted and last comment posted options.
That could be further adjusted to where the “last comment posted” doesnt take into account the OP of the thread posting his own comments.
That would mean in order for a thread to get ranked higher up, other people besides the OP would have to be engaging on it.

I dont think a thread should be totally hidden

I also dont agree with number of blocks tying to a ban. If theyve blocked you, they already cant see your posts… and as mentioned people have created alt accounts to block people and get their rank boosted up on the most ignored list

I like the fact the forums are less restrictive than many other sites. Unless something presents a legal concern for the site, it shouldnt be restricted from being posted

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gammanu95

"We can't ignore the trolls". Why not? We have the ignore button. I just logged in from the main page and all the multitude of posts from the trolls disappeared. I know there is a collection of desperate losers out there who attack 95% of what I say while not contributing a single shred of worthwhile convo. Losers who believe that getting a reaction from me would be their validation - ignored.

The big problem are the idiots who react to everything the trolls say. You know who you are. If you didn't feed them, they wouldn't come around. Icey, dusty, and all the other rage-click-baiters are not interested in sincere deliberation. You validate them by reacting.

The problems with founder's VIP forum is that we had too many members active in discussions who were not active in VIP. Most things posted in VIP were not widely seen. Even the verified members' room was unproductive because too few active users were getting verified. imo, that was much closers to TUSCL's prime than where we are now; so bringing them back would futile.

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ClubFan81077

This is quite the lively discussion...

I have a "personal code of conduct" that I abide by. No one is forcing me to have that--it's just what I expect of myself, and ONLY of myself. I don't worry about what others are doing (or not doing) in that regard, because there's nothing I can do about the way the rest of the world behaves. I don't deserve a cookie or a gold star either. I try to be extremely tolerant of others, and yet fairly strict with myself, because that's just what I'm comfortable with. I'm grateful for this website, and I try to be a good guest when I'm here...

@elmer I totally get what you're trying to say here, and I think this is a really good discussion.

@founder This isn't exactly related to the topic, but I'm curious how difficult it would be to implement a "poll" option, where the site can keep track of how many votes each choice has received? I've thought that this would be a cool addition, but I have no idea how time-consuming it is to code something like that...

And thank you once again for keeping the site alive and well for all of us to enjoy!

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BumHip

@Founder: If one could block a user, it would solve almost all of this. If a user is blocked, they can not see the blocker's reviews, or comments. Problem solved. Not sure why this is even controversial.

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twentyfive

That’s a two way block, and for some reason founder refuses to implement such a useful feature.

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Icey

Exactly a 2 way block is all we need

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skibum609

Changing anything on a website is just another round of whack-a-mole. If people don't like how its run, maybe just fuck off and go elsewhere. NO one is forced to read anything or even log on. Just stfu already.

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founder

Regarding two way block; If you post something on this board, everyone should be able to see it. It's like saying something in a crowded public space.

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skibum609

^ well said.

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twentyfive

@founder
let me respond to you with a point, there are rules of order, if you say something inflammatory in a public space you will be held responsible, that's not the case here at all, if a person wants to make a counter to a statement made that they don't agree with, no one here is objecting to reasonable, and even heated discussion, but just pulling the most insulting thing you can think of, because you dislike someone isn't reasonable, plus the folks saying much of the most objectionable things, have made numerous troll accounts, to avoid both accountability, and the few things normally accepted by our society.
Point is, you should not be free to say anything you want without repercussions.
What you are doing is empowering the trolls who continuously try to push past boundaries, and create chaos, for their own amusement, and the discomfort of the majority.

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Jascoi

It would just be nice if people would be polite to each other.
Not everybody has to agree but at least tolerate others.

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twentyfive

@Jascoi

I am 100% in agreement with you.

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skibum609

^^ If I wouldn't put up with this shit face to face, why would I put up with it on here? There is no hill too small for me to plant my flag upon and die if need be lol.

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gammanu95

^^Who are you crapping?! You are the epitome of a lifeless troll. You have no concept of how to be polite, agreeably disagree, accept others' views when they conflict with your own, or even have a day without a feud. You are fooling no one but yourself. You have never once trod upon the high road. Everyone recognizes your bullshit but you, and you are the only one who believes it.

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twentyfive

^ I know you believe it

🎼🎺🎷🪉🎼

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twentyfive

Gammy's version of a humble brag

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gammanu95

25iq proves my point that he has "no concept of how to be polite, agreeably disagree, accept others' views when they conflict with your own, or even have a day without a feud."

Enjoy your retirement following me around TUSCL all day.

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